"Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote
> Helen Ramsay <r@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I could hardly believe my
> > ears when he said, "I'll gladly pay for your one way ticket back to the
> > PROVINCE of OTTAWA." !! Jeesh! Really! Don't they research these
things?
> >
> > Cheers,  Helen (in the PROVINCE of ONTARIO where the FEDERAL CAPITAL OF
> > CANADA, OTTAWA, is situated.)
>
> Maybe all that verbiage wouldn't fit in the little box on the form, so
> it got abbreviated?

No! no! no! Louise. All that would have to fit in the little box is ONT.
Can't get much less than that :)

> Mind you, I did get skilled at cramming "Specialist in
> Humanities/International Services", or some variant thereof, into that
> tiny little box on the Japanese visa renewal forms.

Since I've never seen a Japanese visa renewal form I'll have to take your
word for that.

Cheers,  Helen
hramsay at cogeco dot ca